J. B. Smith Vita

General Percussion Bibliography

Bajzek, Dieter. Percussion: An Annotated Bibliography. London: Scarecrow, 1988.

Banek, Reinhold and Jon Scoville. Sound Design: A Handbook of Musical Instrument Building. New York: Ten Speed Press, 1980.

Beck, John H. ed. Encyclopedia of Percussion. New York: Garland, 1995.

Blades, James. Percussion Instruments and Their History. Westport, Conn.: Bold Strummer, 1992.

Benvenga, Nancy. Timpani and the Timpanist’s Art: Musical and Technical Development in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Goteborgs University, 1979.

Bowles, Edmund. The Timpani A History in Pictures and Documents. Pendragon Press, 2002.

Cage, John. Silence. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan Press, 1961.

Gary D. Cook. Teaching Percussion, 3rd ed. Thomson Schirmer, 2006.

Girsberger, Russ. Practical Guide to Percussion Terminology. Meredith Music, 2000.

Holland, James. Percussion. London: MacDonald and James, 1978.

Larrick, Geary. Analytical and Biographical Writings in Percussion Music. New York: Lang, 1989.

Montagu, Jeremy. Timpani & Percussion. Yale University Press, 2002.

Moore, James L. Acoustics of Bar Percussion. Permus, 1970.

Peinkofer, Karl.  Handbook of Percussion Instruments : their characteristics and playing techniques, with illustrations and musical examples from the literature.  London ; New York : Schott ; Melville, New York : [distributed by] : Belwin-Mills, 1976.  Translation of Handbuch des Schlagzeugs.

Peters, Gordon. The Drummer: Man. Wilmette, Illinois: Kemper-Peters, 1975.

Reich, Steve. Writings About Music. Universal Edition, 1974.

Smith Brindle, Reginald. Contemporary Percussion. London: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Schick, Steve. The Percussionist's Art - Same Bed, Different Dreams. Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press, 2006.

Shivas, Andrew A. The Art of the Tympanist and Drummer. Edinburgh: Univ. Press, 1988.

Samuel Z. Solomon. How to Write for Percussion. Samuel Solomon, 2004.

Tabourot. Historic Percussion: A Survey. Tactus Press, 1994.

Vela, David. Information on the Marimba. Institute Press, 1978

Selected Articles for Percussion

Bachman, Tibor and Peter J. Bachmann. "An Analysis of Bela Bartok’s Music Through Fibonaccian Numbers and The Golden Mean." Musical Quarterly 65 (1979): 72-82.

Butchers, Christopher. "The Random Arts: Xenakis, Mathematics and Music." Tempo 80 no 3 (Summer 1968): 2-5.

Carter, Elliot. "On Edgard Varese." Sherman Van Solkema, ed. The New Worlds of Edgar [sic] Varese: A Symposium. Institute for Studies in American Music, New York: Univ. of New York, 1979.

Cox, David Harold. "Focus on Research: On the Threshold of Beauty: Form and Structure in Varese’s Ionisation." Percussive Notes 27 no 2 (Winter 1989): 57-9.

Deviney, Chris. "An Interview with George Crumb." Percussive Notes 30 (June 1990): 61-4.

Deviney, Chris. "Focus on Performance: Interview with George Crumb." Percussive Notes 28 no 3 (August 1988): 205-17.

Francois, Jean-Charles. "Introduction to Kenneth Gaburo’s Article on Patch’s Bewitched." Percussive Notes Research Edition. (March 1985).

Hackbarth, Glenn Allen. "The Sound-Mass in Varese’s Early Music." Percussive Notes Research Edition – The Percussionist 23 no 3 (March 1985): 4-16.

Hitchcock, H. Wiley. "Henry Cowell’s Ostinato Pianissimo." Musical Quarterly 70 no 1 (Winter 1984): 23-44.

Owens, Charles. "Paul Creston’s Concerto for Marimba: A Master Lesson by Master Artist Charles Owen." Percussive Notes 21 no 2 (Jan 1983).

Partch, Harry. "Barbs and Broadsides." Percussive Notes Research Edition. (1981).

Kirby, Percival R. “The Kettledrums: An Historical Survery.” Music & Letters Vol. 9, No. 1 (Jan., 1928), pp. 34-43.

Radice, Mark A. "Futurismo: It’s Origins, Context, Repertory and Influence." Musical Quartely 73 no 1 (1989): 1-17.

Renshaw, Jeffrey. "Schwantner on Composition," The Instrumentalist (May 1991): 14-17.

Rosen, Michael. "Focus on Performance: Ballet Mechanique." Percussive Notes 28 no 1 (Fall 1989): 48-50.

Schuller, Gunther. "Conversation with Varese." Perspectives of New Music. 3 no 2 (Summer 1965): 32-7.

Smith, Stuart. "The Early Percussion Music of John Cage." Percussionst. 16 no 1 (Fall 1987).

——— "Interview with John Cage." Percussive Notes Research Edition 21, no. 3 (March 1983).

Strain, James A. "Published Literature for Xylophone (ca. 1880-1930)." Percussive Notes (Dec 1992): 65-95.

Vanlandingham, Larry. "The Percussion Ensemble 1930-1945." Percussionist 9 no. 3, 1971.

Wen-chung, Chou. "Ionisation: The function of Timbre in its Formal and Temporal Organization." Sherman Van Solkema, ed. The New Worlds of Edgar [sic] Varese: A Symposium. Institute for Studies in American Music. New York: Univ. of New York, 1979.

Williams, J. Kent. "A Survey of Writings on Bartok’s Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion." Percussionist 4 (May 1970): 3-22.

Xenakis, Iannis. "The Origins of Stochastic Music." Tempo 78 no 4 (Autumn 1966): 9-12.

Percussion Web Sites

Percussive Arts Society, an international organization for percussionists. Its web site is available at www.pas.org and provides links to publications and other percussion sites on the web.

History of the Snare Drum

Gauthreaux, Guy Gregoire, “Orchestral Snare Drum Performance: An Historical Study.” PAS.org, May 1989

http://www.pas.org/Libraries/PASIC_Archives/Gauthreaux.sflb.ashx

History of Xylophone

Lewis, Ryan C. “Much More Than Ragtime: The Musical Life of George Hamilton Green (1893-1970).” PAS.org, 2009.

http://www.pas.org/Libraries/PASIC_Archives/RyanLewisGreenThesis_sflb.sflb.ashx

J. C. Deagan Resourse

http://www.deaganresource.com/

History of Pipe and Tabor

An Iconography of the Pipe and Tabor 16th - 17th Century

http://www.unh.edu/music/Icon/ipatks.htm

http://www.music.iastate.edu/antiqua/pipetabr.htm